Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1924, Page 21

" WOULD INCREASE RESEARCH INTEREST Smithsonian Official Appeals te Public to Broaden Its View. Efforts to popularize research in the natural sciences are being made by the Smithsonlan Institution. In its recent report the institution in- cludes a gencral appendix of a serles of articles on sclentific advance, to- gether with a plea by Dr. C. G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Institution, for the support of the public in re- search work. The attitude of the greater propor- tion of the Anierlean people toward research is t explains, eral Govern- han one-third s annual budget for ns a fact, even though obtained are often vital contributions to country-wide welfare and education. The report emphasizes such research work is far from being a remote and technical subjoct since it so closely touches the actual daily life of thou- sands of citizens. The articles are written by experts, who point out the great benefits obtained from the re- Sults of the scientists’ work. The possibility of utilizing the energy of the sun when the present supplles of coal and oll a xhausted is eited as an importan ect of the research work now arried on. £ means are provided, sclentific erics will continue to be made " the report vle to change 1 as past experience | ernment would sup- by mors than one-third of 1 per cent of its annual budgot, Dbecause the voters would demand it, and men of wealth could endow new foundations for scientific research or would strengthen existing ones. If investigation had always been limited 0 subjects promising to have utility, we should still be fn the Dark Ages.” Reclamation Discussed. An artici * appen- dix of the r clonul | Lfforts at Home Making.” le describes the results o reclamation projects In lons of the West, empl -1 - | from New York for his new post on lems fuvolve e features ] report closes with a paper entitled | “Ideal of the Telephone Service,” by Gen. John J. Carty, which serves as « tribute to Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. VISIT MILANS LODGE. Grand Master of Masons and As- sociates Pay Official Call. The grand master of Masons of the Distric§ of Columbia, accompanied by the officers of the Grand Lodge. mads his annual grand visitation Fri- day evening to Joseph H. Miwmns Lodge, No. 38, In Masonic Hall, Eighth street near reet northeast. Grand cordially received master of Milans on being number one among all the lodges in the matter of subscriptions to_the United Masonic Temple :und. The final visitation for 1924 is scheduled for next Wednesday eve- ning at 8 o'clock. It will be to Har- mony Lodge, No. 17. Following the visitation the lodge has completed plans for an entertainment and ladies’ night at the City Club, with cards and dancing. 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Mrs. Wendell nursed the baron back to health while she was a Red Cross nurse in the American prison camp. The baron and Mrs. Wendell will make their home {n Omaha, he having disposed of his holdings in Germany. LOCAL MEN CHOSEN FOR TRADE ENVOYS i Washingtonians Selected to Rep- il sent Commerce Department Abroad. Appointment of two Washington men, both Central High School grad- uates, and both former students of the Georgetown School of Foreign |} Service, as trade promotion agents of the United States was announced yesterday by Julius Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- tie Commerce. H. Bently MacKenzie, former as- sistant trade commissioner at Mexico City, has been appointed trade com- missioner in charge of the Lima,| il Peru, office of the bureau, and Albert O. Plerrot, formerly connected with || the Brazilian office of the bureau, has been appointed assistant trade com- | i missioner at Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Mr. MacKenzie has been with the Bureau of Forelgn and Domestic Commerce since 1920, serving suc-|fiil cessively as translator and special | fi agent, assistant manager of the Chi- cago district office and assistant trade commissioner in charge of the Mexico City office of the bureau. He Mexico, and is a co-author with P. H. Bell, former trade commissioner, of a handbook on Mexico. He will sail! November 27. Mr. Pierrot, who was formerly em- ployed by the Bureau of Fisheries, in whose service he visited nearly every state in the Union, has been in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce for two vears. He was with Commerclal Attache Schurz when the latter led a party last year | i into the upper Amazon Valley to in- vestigate the rubber resources of | il that reglon. He has already left for | il his new post. 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